41.2 Digestive compartments

Question 1

how are animals able to digest things without digesting themselves?

Answer 1

prices food within specialized compartments

• intracellular or
• extracellular

Question 2

intracellular digestion

Answer 2

food vacuoles-cellular organelles where hydrolytic enzymes break down food
-vacuoles fuse with lysosomes that release the digestive enzymes

Question 3

extracellular digestion

Answer 3

some hydrolysis

• allows food digestion of larger things
  1) food in gastrovascular cavity
  2) tissue around it secretes digestive enzymes
  3) other cells engulf food particles
  4) macromolecules broken down intracellularly
  5) undigested material remains in cavity to be excreted

Question 4

a digestive tube with two openings is a

Answer 4

complete digestive
-and alimentary canal

-it can be separated into lots of compartments that lets food be ingested while the last meal was still being digested